Re: HUMOUR: Pronounce This...
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 17:43 |
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 01:04:54PM -0400, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> I received this from my mother (I do not know if this has been posted on
> this list or not, but it is worth the grins, giggles, grimaces, yowls of
> protest and pain, etc. that this bound to induce):
[snip]
It missed words with multiple pronunciations:
Please *read* this <---> I have *read* it.
He is *Polish* <--> I bought shoe *polish*.
This is an *invalid* statement <--> She was an *invalid*.
*The* hour <--> *The* man.
Of course, one can never forget "GHOTI", pronounced [fiS]. (I forgot who
invented this one, but it is constructed by taking "gh" from "enough", "o"
from "women", and "ti" from "nation".)
Talk about Maggelity -- yet ironically we find English so "regular" :-)
T
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Let X be the set of all the things not described by this sentence...
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